The Prix Iris for Best Editing () is an annual film award presented by
Québec Cinéma
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec.
The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, ...
as part of the
Prix Iris
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awards program, to honour the year's best
film editing
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...
in the
Cinema of Quebec
The history of cinema in Quebec started on June 27, 1896 when the Frenchman Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room. However, it would have to wait until the 1960s before a genuine Quebe ...
.
Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor in memory of influential Quebec film director
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra (; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter. .
Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma.
[ The ]Prix Iris
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name was announced in October 2016.Michel Jetté Michel Jetté is a Québécois director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He produced three full-length movies, several short films, and over a hundred television reports. , Simon Sauvé, Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature ...
(thrice), Demian Fuica, Rafaël Ouellet, Nathalie Saint-Pierre, François Delisle, Chloé Leriche, Mathieu Denis
Mathieu Denis is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is best known for his films '' Corbo'', which was a Canadian Screen Award and Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Picture in 2016, and '' Those Who Make Revolution Halfw ...
, Robin Aubert
Robin Aubert (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director. , Sophie Deraspe
Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf ...
, Monia Chokri
Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.
Life and career
Born in Quebec City in 1982, Chokri began her acting career after she completed her studies at Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in 2005. Her mother i ...
and Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. His feature-length debut, '' The Twentieth Century,'' premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three.
His second feature film, ''Universal Language (Une l ...
. Of those, Xavier Dolan and Sophie Deraspe won the award.
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
Three or more nominations
Combined totals for Best Editing and Best Editing in a Documentary
Multiple wins
Three or more nominations
See also
*Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Editing is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film editor in a feature film. The award was presented for the first time in 1966 as part of the Canadian Fil ...
References
{{Quebec Cinema Awards
Awards established in 1999
Film editing awards
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written language, written, Image editing, visual, Audio engineer, audible, or Film editing, cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing p ...
Quebec-related lists
1999 establishments in Canada